This folder includes records related to the overall development and operations of the United Way organization; minutes of various boards and committees; program files formed around functional activities, studies, relationships, and topical reference materials; files on member agencies, formed primarily around the budget allocation process; and scrapbooks. This folder contains records related to Phyllis Wheatley House, a Minneapolis settlement house open to the African American community. Founded in 1924, the Phyllis Wheatly House played a major role in Minneapolis' African American history. Many other public services were not open to African Americans, causing this settlement house to offer a wide array of service beyond the usual educational and social services. These additional services included accomodations for visiting performers and dignitaries like Langston Hughes and Marian Anderson, who were not allowed to stay in the city's segregated hotels, as well as housing for visiting scholars.

Forms part of the African American Digital Collections: Digitizing African American Archival Materials Across Collections project
Funded through the Council on Library and Information Resources’ Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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